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word counts in each plan's own language
The table counts how often each local plan or strategy on antisemitism, and each wider local plan that names antisemitism, uses the words of 15 topics, in the language in which the plan was written and per 1,000 words of its text.
The figures count words, and no one has read the passages to code them. A word counts every time it appears, whether in a heading, a table of contents, a footnote or a sentence saying that a measure will not be taken, and a plan can treat a topic at length in words the topic lists do not contain. In a short text, a few uses of a word change the rate a great deal. German joins nouns into compounds, so its stems are also counted inside a word, whereas in the other languages a stem counts only at the start of a word. Shading runs from the lowest to the highest rate within each column, so a dark cell under Sport means a far lower rate than a dark cell under Antisemitism.
Text is lower-cased and stripped of accents before counting, so "Jüdisch" and "jüdisch" are counted alike, and "Israel" excludes israélite and israelitisch, which name Jewish communities in French, German and Swiss usage. Where a record holds the plan and other papers (council minutes, an engagement report), the longest file is counted. Toronto's 2024 plan was saved within the police board's agenda, of which pages 61 to 68 are counted, and Halle's measures of October 2019 within the city's gazette, of which pages 1 to 4 are counted. National plans and texts under 500 words are left out, and where two saved layouts of one plan give the same word count (Copenhagen, 2023), the later one is shown. The counts for every plan are in word_profiles.csv.
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This site is a project of the Lab for the Global Study of Antisemitism, housed in the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto.
This is a work in progress. Corrections are welcome.